Union Cemetery receives national designation

Union Cemetery, the final resting place for many of Kansas City, Westport, and Midtown’s pioneers, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places Kansas City’s oldest public cemetery is maintained by the Union Cemetery Historical ...

History lives at Union Cemetery, but …

Bruce Matthews photographed the new book on Union Cemetery. “…all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave, awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” Thomas Gray Veterans from the Revolutionary War to ...

A chance to see Union Hill’s past and future

Photo courtesy Kansas City Park Department. You can tour the historic Union Cemetery and preview a big new apartment building in the renovated neighborhood on Saturday. The cemetery tour meshes with a new book called “Kansas City’s Historic ...

Halloween history: Union Cemetery’s roots

For a little bit of Halloween trivia, we enjoyed an article about Union Cemetery, Missouri’s oldest public burial place. Union Cemetery sits on 27 acres of land at 227 E. 28th Terrace. The parks department tells us it got many of its permanent ...